Home Sweet Home

Filmstill Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home
Annika Mayer
German Competition Documentary Film
Documentary Film
Germany
2023
67 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
English
World premiere

Rose and Rolf in the still-young FRG. He, 13 years her senior, was in the Second World War. She, who wants to have many children, accepts his proposal and leaves school. Rose watches Super 8 home movies from the fifties, sixties and seventies with her granddaughter Annika Mayer, the director of “Home Sweet Home”: her two boys in short leather pants, a home with a manicured front garden, dad coming home from work, mom cooking soup with sausage links. Rose does not recognise herself in these ideal images of the German economic miracle. This pretty young woman is a stranger to her.

Annika begins to ask questions. Together with her grandmother, she starts to look for traces of domestic violence in the latter’s marriage, which is invisible in the films. But Rose’s open narratives gradually make her experiences tangible. What biographical abysses may lurk behind Rolf’s proud smile? Judiciously deployed slow motion effects dissect the apparent domestic happiness. Atonal and hyperrealistic sounds lie under the distorted soundtrack. The birds sing all too happily, the idyll suddenly seems deceptive.


Anke Leweke

Contains mentions of physical violence

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11.10.
#323
CineStar 4
I Still Talk to You + Home Sweet Home
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11.10.2023
CineStar 4
#323
I Still Talk to You + Home Sweet Home
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12.10.
#4A2
Cinémathèque
I Still Talk to You + Home Sweet Home
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12.10.2023
Cinémathèque
#4A2
I Still Talk to You + Home Sweet Home
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14.10.
#634
CineStar 5
I Still Talk to You + Home Sweet Home
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14.10.2023
CineStar 5
#634
I Still Talk to You + Home Sweet Home
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Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Annika Mayer
Script
Annika Mayer
Cinematographer
Jakob Krese
Editor
Annika Mayer
Producer
Annika Mayer, Jakob Krese
Sound Design
Gaston Ibarroule
Score
Gaston Ibarroule

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